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Druva Bet the Backup Business on a Radical Idea: Delete the Hardware
The company began by selling the same kind of backup software its founders had left behind. Then it rebuilt the product, the pricing and the customer bargain around one stubborn premise: backup infrastructure should be Druva's problem.
Commvault
Backup used to mean making a copy. Commvault is betting the harder, more valuable job is proving an entire business can come back clean - data, identities, applications and cloud infrastructure included.
Strata Identity
Strata Identity is a Boulder, Colorado cybersecurity company that pioneered the category of Identity Orchestration. Its Maverics platform lets enterprises connect any application to any identity provider - on-premises or cloud - without rewriting code, so they can migrate off legacy systems, survive identity outages, and govern access for both humans and AI agents. Founded in 2019 by SAML co-author Eric Olden and two fellow identity veterans, Strata raised more than $40 million and was acquired by data-security firm Rubrik in June 2026.